Server sweat to heat 1,350 flats in Brescia

A new data centre in northern Italy is doing more than just powering AI calculations and cloud storage. Italian utility A2A and French tech firm Qarnot have teamed up to build a liquid-cooled facility in Brescia that dumps its waste heat into the city’s district heating system, warming more than 1,350 local homes.

Offsetting the CO2

Amazon’s Web Services are partnering with an AI company to build carbon capture machines, which could mitigate the harmful effects of the colossal energy required to operate them.

Silicon's days could be numbered

Big Blue Researchers have discovered a way to replace silicon semiconductors with carbon nanotube transistors and think that the development will push the industry past Moore's law limits.